Overcast, 87, and a 44 percent chance the sky does something about it ⛅ The plate readers on Glades and Federal are coming down this month, prix fixe season starts today, and word around town is a Whole Foods may be headed for Yamato.

Let's get into it.

The Florida Department of Transportation has ordered every automated license plate reader off state roadways and rights of way, and Boca Raton police confirmed more than two dozen of theirs come down by September 30. They sit on Federal Highway, A1A, Glades Road and Yamato Road. FDOT cited the growth in deployments plus reports of misuse, data privacy concerns and surveillance schemes. The department operates 262 readers in total, so the ones on city streets stay put.

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Alec Dierna, 32, and John Engler, 40, both of Boca Raton, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud. Between August 2020 and July 2022 they mailed businesses across the country invoices that looked real, from companies that were not, under names like Office Outlet and America's Best, for office products nobody ordered. Thousands of companies paid. The total came to $8,010,543.50. Sentencing is set for February 10, 2027, and the charge carries up to 20 years.

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September is Library Card Sign Up Month, and the Palm Beach County Library System is running an incentive: bring a friend or family member to get a new card or renew an expired one and you are entered in a prize drawing, plus a limited edition keychain while they last. Worth knowing if you have a student in the house, since the card covers e-books, audiobooks, movies, research databases and learning kits, not just paper.

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Sherlock Holmes before he was Sherlock Holmes 🎭 and a free night of galleries in Delray.

FAU Theatre Lab opens Baker Street Beginnings on the Heckscher Stage inside the Marleen Forkas Studio One Theatre, 777 Glades Road. It is young Arthur Conan Doyle working cases in 1870s London, written so a twelve year old and a seventy year old can sit through the same show. Adults $25, and every adult ticket comes with a free student ticket. Extra student seats are $5. Saturdays at 7, Sundays at 3, through September 20.

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First Friday Art Walk, downtown Delray. Galleries stay open late, nobody checks a ticket, and you can decide at 8:45 whether it turns into dinner.

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Flavor South Florida is back for September. Set menus, set price, at restaurants that spend the other eleven months quietly assuming you cannot afford them 🍽️ Delray is running its own Restaurant Month at the same time, so you have thirty days and no excuse for the place you keep saying you will try.

Book early in the month. Everyone remembers this exists around the 20th.

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Skin Apeel on Powerline has won Best Skin Treatment five consecutive years, took South Florida Best Holistic Spa, and got a Best Skin and Nails nod from Self. Founder Kimberley Knapp has landed on Boca's Successful Women in Business list twice 💆

The facials are the thing people rave about, and the massage, hands and feet, and full spa rituals are every bit as good. It is warm, it is unhurried, and the estheticians actually remember your skin from last time. Over 400 five star reviews and a weekend calendar that fills up early, so book ahead.

21301 Powerline Road, Suite 215.

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POSH Consignment by V is the kind of place you walk into for one thing and leave an hour later. Authenticated Hermès, Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Dior, Celine and Cartier, plus shoes, ready to wear and fine jewelry, and the inventory turns over constantly so it is never the same shop twice 👜

V has a genuinely great eye, everything is verified before it hits the floor, and the prices make pieces you have been admiring for years suddenly reasonable. If you cannot get in, they run live shopping on Instagram midweek and it is worth setting a reminder for.

40 N Federal Highway. Summer hours Monday to Saturday, 11 to 4.

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Seventeen acres of asphalt at 680 W. Yamato is finally becoming something. 13th Floor Investments has foundations in the ground for Boca Village: eight stories, 340 apartments, 51 of them affordable or workforce, and about 29,500 square feet of street level retail with a spot carved out for an outdoor restaurant 🏗️

Here is the part nobody has announced. Word around town is that a Whole Foods is taking a piece of that retail. Unconfirmed, no signed tenant, and the sign on the fence still says FOR LEASE. But you heard it here first.

Either way, Boca is finally building something you can walk to a train from. Know something about that retail? Hit reply, we will chase it.

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